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Volume 13, Issue 12
1 December 1993
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Research Article| December 01 1993

Determining Economic Batch Sizes for Multiple Items in a Multilevel Manufacturing System

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6593
Print ISSN: 0144-3577
© MCB UP Limited
1993
International Journal of Operations & Production Management (1993) 13 (12): 79–93.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01443579310048236

Presents a mathematical model for determining Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) in a multistage flow‐shop production system for the case where the demand for items per unit time is deterministic and the planning horizon is finite. Solves an example problem to illustrate the model.

Keywords: Batch production, Economic lot size, Flow production, Models, Planning, Queuing theory
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